PCB wastes and PCB equipments in the Slovak Republic

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PCB wastes and PCB equipments in the Slovak
Republic
16 17 November 2006, Skopje, Macedonia

• Slovak Environmental AgencyCentre of Waste and
  Environmental Management, Bratislava
• Department of Chemical Safety for Environment
• National Contact Point for Stockholm Convention
  Focal point for Basel Convention
• Andrea Laurincova Katarina Lenkova
  
• e-mail andrea.laurincova_at_sazp.sk
  katarina.lenkova_at_sazp.sk
• ba_pcb_at_sazp.sk ba_oim_at_sazp.sk
• 
  www.sazp.sk

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Overview

• PCB Legislation
• National Conceptual/Strategical Documents
• Authority of SEA, CWEM - reporting
• Status of PCB Inventory in the Slovak Republic
  (equipments in operation, wastes and stocks)
• PCB project recent activity of SEA, CWEM
  Bratislava
• Conclusion - opened problems

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PCB LegislationLiabilities of the SR
International Conventions

• Protocol on POPs to the Convention on Long-range
  Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) on
  persistent pollutants - 23 October 2003 valid
  in Slovakia (Announcement of the Ministry of
  Foreign Affairs SR No 367/2003 Coll.).
• Stokholm Convention on POPs - 17 May 2004 -
  adopted in Slovakia (Announcement of the Ministry
  of Foreign Affairs SR No 593/2004 Coll.).
• Related International Conventions
• Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary
  Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
  valid since 5 May 1992 in Slovakia 1st January
  1993 (Announcement of the Ministry of Foreign
  Affairs SR No 60/1995 Coll.)
• Aarhus Convention on Access to Information,
  Public Participation in Decision-Making and
  Access to Justice in Environmental Matters -
  validity for EU - 30 October 2001 Slovakia has
  not been ratified.
• Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed
  Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous
  Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade
  validity for EU - 24 February 2004 Slovakia has
  not been ratified.

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PCB LegislationObligations of the SR - EU
membership

• Waste Act No 24/2004 Coll.
• (Council Directive 96/59/EC on disposal of
  PCB/PCT)
• Obligations of
• holders
• state administration bodies in waste management
• An obligation to dispose (D8, D9, D10 a D15) or
  decontaminate existing equipments containing PCB
  (PCB contents gt5dm3) ) by 31 December 2010
• Decree of MoE SR No 135/2004 Coll. on
  decontamination of equipments containing PCB
• Reference methods for PCB presence in
  contaminated equipments
• Labelling of equipments containing PCB, locality
  and area.
• Decree of MoE SR No 283/2001 Coll. as amended
  by subsequent regulations
• Programme of PCB holder

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National Conceptual/Strategical Documents

• Waste Management Programme (2006-2010)
• (Government Decree of SR No 118/2006)
• Mandatory part way of treatment of PCB and
  equipments containing PCB in time
• Guiding part plan to establish new facilities
  for decontamination of equipments containing PCB
• PCB holder Programme
• Mandatory part data on equipments containing
  PCB, PCB and used PCB, measurements, conceptual
  plan for decontamination or disposal of and date
  of its realisation, data on lifetime of
  transformers underlying inventory
• Guiding part plan to establish new facilities
  for decontamination of equipments containing PCB
• Deadline December 31st 2005

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National Conceptual/Strategical Documents

• National Implementation Plan for POPs (NIP)
• (Government Decree of SR No 415/2006 of 10 May
  2006)
• Art. 7 of the Stockholm Convention (SC) each
  Party prepares NIP and submits this document to
  the Secretariat of the SC
• Deadline 17 May 2006
• Requirements of the Stockholm Convention
• Elimination of the use of PCB in equipment (e.g.
  transformers, capacitors, or other receptacles
  containing liquid stocks) by 2025,
• Exposure reduction and risk to control the use of
  polychlorinated biphenyls,
• Restriction export/import PCB with except for the
  purpose of environmentally sound waste
  management,
• Not allow recovery for the purpose of reuse in
  other equipment of liquids with PCB,
• Elimination of PCB releases from stockpiles,
• Appropriate strategies for investigation of
  stockpiles comprising and/or containing PCB,
• Restriction to landfill that could lead to reuse,
  recycling, direct or other use of PCB,
• Restriction to transport across international
  borders without compliance of appropriate
  international rules, standards and directives.

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Authority of SEA, CWEM - reporting

• National Contact Point of the Stockholm
  Convention - POPs
• Council Directive 96/59/EC on the disposal of
  PCB/PCT (complete information of inventory of
  equipments contaminated PCB, a list of holders, a
  list of plants for disposal used PCB) - annualy
• Art.12 of the Regulation (EC) 850/2004 on POPs
  (statistical data on real and estimated volume
  production and place on the market, stockpiles,
  monitoring data Non-POPs, etc.) different
  reporting deadlines
• Art.15 of the Stockholm Convention (forms SC
  -1/22, SC-2/18) a regular annual reporting
• Focal point of the Basel Convention
  transboundary movements of wastes
• the Art.13 and 16 of the Basel Convention - a
  regular annual reporting
• Commission Decision 1999/412/EC concerning a
  questionnaire for the reporting obligation of
  Member States pursuant to Article 41(2) of
  Council Regulation (EEC) No 259/93 annualy
• Joint Questionnaire Eurostat/OECD

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Status of PCB inventory in the SREquipments
containing PCB

• I. Phase (2001)
• Project Identification and categorization of
  equipments containing PCB
• Result 490 potencial holders of equipments
  containing PCB or PCB
• 23 913 pieces of equipments
  containing PCB
• approx. 240 tones - total weight of
  equipments
• II. Phase (2002 - 2004)
• Project Initial Assisstance to the Slovak
  Republic to meet its Obligations under the
  Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic
  Pollutants (POPs) SLO/01/G31/A/1G/99
• Result 31 261 pieces of equipments containing
  PCB
• approx. 345 tones total weight of
  equipments

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Status of PCB inventory in SR Equipments
containing PCB

• III. Phase (from 1 March 2004 Waste Act No
  24/2004 Coll. entries into force)
• Result status as of October 31st 2006
• Equipments containing PCB in operation - 24 640
  pieces of which
• Capacitors Transformers
  Other equipments
• 24 415 pieces 105
  pieces 120 pieces
• Other equipments e.g. lift truck, starters, node
  relay, downterms stokehold etc.
• 13 424 pieces of equipments containing PCB were
  disposed of.

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Status of PCB inventory in SR Capacitors
containing PCB(status as of October 31st 2006)
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Status of PCB inventory in the SRPCB wastes

• Used PCB, equipment containing PCB out of
  operation and a storage for disposal.
• SEA, CWEM Bratislava collects data on amount of
  generated waste in Slovakia and on way of its
  disposal through RWIS
• Decree of MoE SR No 284/2001 Coll. establishing
  Waste Catalogue (Annex1)
• 13 01 01 Hydraulic oils, containing PCBs or PCTs
• 13 03 01 Insulating or heat transmission oils and
  other liquids containing PCBs or PCTs
• 16 01 09 Components containing PCBs
• 16 02 09 Transformers and capacitors containing
  PCBs or PCTs
• 16 02 10 Discarded equipment containing or
  contaminated by PCBs or PCTs other than those
  mentioned in 16 02 09
• 17 09 02 Construction and demolition wastes
  containing PCB (for example PCB containing
  sealants, PCB-containing resin-based floorings,
  PCB-containing sealed glazing units,
  PCB-containing capacitors)

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Status of PCB inventory in the SRPCB wastes
2004 2005 Generation (t) 692
310 Recovery (t)
97 21 Disposal (t)
595
289 Export (t) 0
0 Import (t) 0 0 Source of
data RWIS (generation/recovery/disposal
reporting of waste holders) Focal point of the
BC (export/import- permissions) Methods of
handling 2004 2005 Landfilling (t)
35 0 Incineration (t) 177
42 PCHT (t)
318
217 Storage (t) 120
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Status of PCB inventory in SRPCB stockpiles

• Storage stockpiles of PCB for the purpose of the
  usage in the future
• (e.g. a refill to transformers)
• The Act No 127/2006 Coll. on POPs and on change
  of Amendments of the Waste Act No 223/2001 Coll.
• Based on the available data no data were
  announced on existing stockpiles of PCB in
  Slovakia at present.

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PCB project recent activity ofSEA, CWEM
Bratislava

• Project Institutional Sstrengthening of
  management of eequipments containing PCB in the
  Slovak Republic UIBF 2003-004-995-01-04/7
• Financial unit MF SR, Phare Programme -
  Unallocated Institutional Building Facility 2006
• Duration December 2005 July 2006
• Main objective Support of MoE SR and SEA, CWEM
  to establish institutional and organizational
  conditions to meet obligations of Council
  Directive 96/59/EC
• Strengthening of system coordinating work of
  stakeholders (MoE SR, regional environmental
  authorities, district environmental authorities,
  Slovak environmental inspectorate, State energy
  inspectorate and SEA)
• To build up IS for reporting on actual status of
  contaminated equipments in SR and ways of their
  treatment
• To ensure fulfilment of reporting requirements of
  SR to EC and Secretariat of SC on inventory of a
  equipments and their handling.
• Outputs
• Report of recommendations
• Workshop focused on subjects involved in the
  field of management of contaminated equipments in
  SR
• IS of contaminated equipments
• Leaflets and promotion of project outputs on SEA
  web site

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Conclusion opened problems

• With active state support and allocation of
  financial and personal resources
• To develop Strategy for collection and
  decontamination and destruction of of equipments
  with PCB contents less than 5dm3
• To develop Strategy for collection,
  decontamination and destruction of PCB wastes in
  agricultural sector
• To ensure continuation of monitoring in the
  contaminated sites, in order to assess the
  contamination range and to set up the
  decontamination procedures
• To take measures for prevention of introduction
  of contaminated food and feedstuffs to the market
  (collection of all results of studies aimed to
  assess an effect of PCB in the most PCB
  contaminated area in the Slovak Republic)
• To prepare and perform information campaign
  adequate training of public as well as private
  sectors, mostly training of employees performing
  control of PCB waste in agricultural sector.

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